FTP Connection Refused
I just tried to transfer a plugin to my server using FTP, but kept getting Connection Refused whenever I logged in. My hosting provider’s solution was to reboot my VPS – a little problematic as I was...
View ArticleRestarting you Apache Webserver
Courtesy of Electric Toolbox If you have made changes to the Apache configuration file httpd.conf on you need to reload the Apache service for the changes to take effect. From the command line you do...
View ArticleOops! Lost my Tool Options in The GIMP
I was messing about with The GIMP the other day and managed to close the tab that appears in the lower half of the window titled “The GIMP”. Aargh! And then it took me ages to find out how to …...
View ArticleSending and Receiving EMail
Most of the time this is a painless task. You just set up your email client and hit the Send/Receive button and away you go. But what happens when things go wrong? How do you troubleshoot the problem?...
View ArticleVerifying a signed download
Some files have been signed by their author to prove that nobody else has tampered with them. This is particularly true of source code or appllications you have downloaded off the web. For example the...
View ArticleProblems assembling files
I could not even assemble a simple Hello World program today :(, must be too tired. I kept getting the error parse error before `(‘ `main’ declared as function returning a function The answer should of...
View ArticleUsing classes in Cascading Style Sheets
At first glance Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the panacea for our formatting woes. If I want a paragraph to be highlighted in yellow, then I would just have to define a class, apply this to the...
View ArticleCSS Cascading priorities
Even though you have spent hours finely tuning your CSS style sheet, the webpage will not display correctly. You have even gone as far as defining a unique style the piece of text you are trying to...
View ArticlePutty Configuration
Download PuTTY from the official website. As a minimum you only need PuTTY.exe, but the zip file and installer also include the following utilities which you may find useful: PSFTP (a Secure FTP client...
View ArticleImproving Accessibility
While looking through the HTML code generated by WordPress, I have come across several tags I was unfamiliar with. One of these was ACCESSKEY. At first sight, this would appear to be a very useful way...
View Article
